Goeland
Turns any RSS/Atom feed into a beautiful email digest.
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Commit activity more than 22% of tracked projects; popularity more than 12%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 207 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.29.2 · 30 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Go, Docker |
Is Goeland actively maintained?
Goeland is under active development: 66 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 20 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 1120% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v0.29.2, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Goeland ranks #14 of 26 in Feed Readers, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Goeland actually does
Goeland is a self-hosted tool that takes standard RSS or Atom web feeds and converts them into structured email digests. It runs as a lightweight containerized service, fetching updates on a schedule and formatting them for your inbox. This allows you to consolidate multiple subscriptions into fewer, periodic reading batches.
Best fit: It suits individuals or small teams who prefer managing their RSS consumption directly inside an email client rather than using a dedicated feed reader application.
Worth knowing: Project maintenance has slowed down recently, and with only a modest number of repository stars, you may encounter unresolved bugs or lack community support for advanced configurations.
Deployment notes
As a containerised Go application, it typically requires persistent storage for configuration and state data, along with a reverse proxy to handle external access if exposed securely.
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